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Trump says he encouraged Ramaswamy to keep running ad featuring Acton's estranged motherSpeaking in Iowa on Thursday, Donald Trump told supporters that he had personally encouraged Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for Ohio governor, to keep running an attack ad featuring the mother of his Democratic rival, Dr Amy Acton, who had lost custody of her daughter at age 12 because her husband was charged with raping the young girl.\u201cThey did an ad of the mother saying the daughter is incompetent, a liar and disgusting unreliable person,\u201d Trump said, adding some claims that were not, in fact, in the ad.\u201cMy mom would not say that about me - even if she believed it,\u201d the president added, making light of the testimony of a woman who sided with the man charged with raping her own 12-year-old daughter.\u201cWhen I first saw it, I said, \u2018Wow, that means Vivek easily will win the race\u2019. And then I got a call from Vivek,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe said, \u2018What would you recommend? Because I\u2019m getting killed in the press.\u2019 Why? He said, \u2018Because they think I should immediately take the ad off.\u2019\u201d\u201cThe mother said horrible things about your opponent,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI said, \u2018You\u2019ve got to ride with it\u2019\u201d.The president made no mention of the fact that the Republican Senate candidate he was there to support, Ashley Hinson, denounced the ad earlier on Thursday. \u201cI think it\u2019s absolutely terrible, and I think they should take the ad down,\u201d Hinson told ABC News ahead of Trump\u2019s appearance.Donald Trump shared the stage with congresswoman Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee for Senate, at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa on Thursday. Photograph: Alex Brandon/APKey events7h agoClosing summary8h agoDonald Trump has left the building8h ago'I am, really, on the ballot', Trump says, without offering to resign if Republicans lose the midterms8h ago'You\u2019ve got to ride with it'. Trump says he encouraged Ramaswamy to keep running ad featuring Acton's estranged mother9h agoDescribing cognitive test, Trump recites math problem he claims he solved, but does not provide the answer9h agoTrump tosses conspiracy theories about Ilhan Omar to Iowa crowd, prompting chants of 'Lock her up!'9h agoTrump begins Iowa rally in support of Republican candidates with heaps of praise for himself10h agoAs Trump travels to Iowa, Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson denounced Ohio ad he supports10h agoStudent IDs will not be accepted at New Hampshire polls, Supreme Court rules11h agoTrump says 'the press has ganged up on' Amy Acton's estranged mother who stayed with husband charged with raping her daughter13h agoTrump's DoJ investigating Corey Lewandowski over role as Kristi Noem adviser \u2013 reports13h agoState department reportedly asked career officials up for promotions about voting history14h agoHere's a recap of the day so far14h ago'Vivek should keep it up': Trump defends controversial Ramaswamy campaign ad condemned by Republicans15h ago'We've got a Senate race to win': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigns with Troy Jackson in Maine16h agoAG doesn't rule out DoJ weighing in on states' certifying election results in certain scenarios16h agoMaine GOP senator Susan Collins calls for removal of radio ad attacking Democrat Troy Jackson as a 'creep'16h agoFederal judge orders Trump administration to halt noncitizen voting investigation in nine states18h agoDemocrats have 37-point lead over Republicans among likely young voters, new poll finds18h agoKey election forecaster shifts Ohio gubernatorial race in Dems favor after GOP campaign ad controversy19h ago'Deeply troubling': Republican governor of Ohio calls on Ramaswamy to take down campaign ad featuring Democratic opponent's estranged mother20h agoGuardian reporters answer your questions about Trump's mass deportation agenda and the midterms22h agoTexas Senate race neck-and-neck as midterms loom22h agoTrump praised supporters for punching protesters at rally23h agoVivek Ramaswamy campaign ad for Ohio \u2018shameful, disgusting\u2019, says Republican congresswomanClosing summaryThis concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:\n \n Donald Trump told supporters in Iowa he had encouraged Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for Ohio governor, to keep running an attack ad featuring the mother of his Democratic rival, Dr Amy Acton, who had lost custody of her daughter at age 12 because her husband was charged with raping the young girl. \u201cI said, \u2018You\u2019ve got to ride with it\u2019\u201d, the president said.\n \n \n Iowa Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson broke with the president by denouncing the attack ad, saying: \u201cI think it\u2019s absolutely terrible, and I think they should take the ad down.\u201d\n \n \n Attorney general Todd Blanche did not rule it out a scenario in which the justice department would try to block states from certifying midterm election results.\n \nDonald Trump has left the building\u2026 or at least the stage, exiting to the live-blogger\u2019s favorite tune, YMCA. The president just wrapped up 90 minutes of remarks, saying very little that he has not said before, but he did devote an extended portion of the speech to defending the attack ad his ally, Vivek Ramaswamy, is running in Ohio, to the dismay of many Republicans, including Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson \u2013 the person Trump was there to promote.'I am, really, on the ballot', Trump says, without offering to resign if Republicans lose the midterms\u201cI\u2019m asking you to pretend that I\u2019m running\u2026 pretend I\u2019m on the ballot,\u201d Donald Trump told supporters in Iowa on Thursday, as he has at each stop on his \u201cmidterm blitz\u201d.\u201cRemember, I\u2019m on the ballot,\u201d he said later in the speech. \u201cBecause I am on the ballot. Really, it\u2019s our stuff, it\u2019s going to be taken away. If we if we don\u2019t win, it\u2019s going to be taken away. So I am, really, on the ballot.\u201dOf course, if the president really wanted to make the midterms a referendum on himself, he could take a page from the leaders of parliamentary democracies and pledge to resign from office should Republicans lose the House and Senate, something he has not done.'You\u2019ve got to ride with it'. Trump says he encouraged Ramaswamy to keep running ad featuring Acton's estranged motherSpeaking in Iowa on Thursday, Donald Trump told supporters that he had personally encouraged Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for Ohio governor, to keep running an attack ad featuring the mother of his Democratic rival, Dr Amy Acton, who had lost custody of her daughter at age 12 because her husband was charged with raping the young girl.\u201cThey did an ad of the mother saying the daughter is incompetent, a liar and disgusting unreliable person,\u201d Trump said, adding some claims that were not, in fact, in the ad.\u201cMy mom would not say that about me - even if she believed it,\u201d the president added, making light of the testimony of a woman who sided with the man charged with raping her own 12-year-old daughter.\u201cWhen I first saw it, I said, \u2018Wow, that means Vivek easily will win the race\u2019. And then I got a call from Vivek,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHe said, \u2018What would you recommend? Because I\u2019m getting killed in the press.\u2019 Why? He said, \u2018Because they think I should immediately take the ad off.\u2019\u201d\u201cThe mother said horrible things about your opponent,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI said, \u2018You\u2019ve got to ride with it\u2019\u201d.The president made no mention of the fact that the Republican Senate candidate he was there to support, Ashley Hinson, denounced the ad earlier on Thursday. \u201cI think it\u2019s absolutely terrible, and I think they should take the ad down,\u201d Hinson told ABC News ahead of Trump\u2019s appearance.Donald Trump shared the stage with congresswoman Ashley Hinson, the Republican nominee for Senate, at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa on Thursday. Photograph: Alex Brandon/APDescribing cognitive test, Trump recites math problem he claims he solved, but does not provide the answerAs he frequently does at campaign rallies, Donald Trump boasted to supporters in Iowa on Thursday that he \u201caced\u201d what he called \u201can aptitude test\u201d that is, in fact, a screening for mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer\u2019s disease.While the test does include a short test of basic mathematical ability, in which patients are asked to perform serial subtraction by 7 starting at 60, Trump claimed on Thursday that the mathematical test was much more complicated.\u201cThe first question easy. The second question is easy. And by the time you get up to number 30, there are many people that can answer those questions. I\u2019ll tell you,\u201d the president said.\u201cThey\u2019ll say like: \u2018Take a number, any number\u2019. Say, 49, \u2018triple it\u2019, and they go pretty much in this speed, \u2018triple it and divide by four; add 2,019; subtract 87; divide by three; multiply by nine. What is the number?\u2019\u201dAs supporters shouted out numbers, Trump just asserted that he solved the problem without saying what the answer is. \u201cNot a lot of people are going to be able to do that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cNot a lot. I did it. I did it three times,\u201d the president said.The president has given similarly detailed descriptions of mathematical problems he says were on the test, and claims to have solved, in previous speeches, but never once provided an answer.\u201cThese are tough questions, you know,\u201d Trump told elderly supporters at The Villages in Florida in May. \u201cThey say, \u2018Take a number, any number.\u2019 Okay, I\u2019ll take 99. \u2018Multiply times nine.\u2019 Okay. \u2018Divide it by three.\u2019 Good. \u2018Add 4,293.\u2019 That\u2019s good. \u2018Divide by two; subtract 93; divide by nine. What is your answer?\u2019 Now they go a little slower than that, but not much. I don\u2019t want to waste a lot of time, but there aren\u2019t a lot of people that get it right. I got it right.\u201dTrump tosses conspiracy theories about Ilhan Omar to Iowa crowd, prompting chants of 'Lock her up!'Despite the fact that he is in Iowa, ostensibly to support Republican candidates, Donald Trump quickly turned to attacks on two candidates running in other states, Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, repeating false claims he has made before about two prominent Muslim Americans.Making no effort to conceal the anti-Muslim racism and fear-mongering he has put at the center of his pitch to Republican voters, Trump claimed that El-Sayed is \u201ca jihadist\u201d.He then recited multiple falsehoods about Omar, including the false claims that she married her brother and that she told an interviewer this week that she did not, \u201cas far as I know\u201d, which she did not.Trump begins Iowa rally in support of Republican candidates with heaps of praise for himselfDonald Trump started speaking, about 40 minutes late, to supporters in Sioux City, Iowa on Thursday by boasting about how well he had done in the state in his own three runs for office.Unusually, the president acknowledged that his term in office is drawing (slowly) to a close. \u201cYou know, we only have a little more than two years left. Can you believe it?\u201d Trump said, before adding: \u201cBut I\u2019m going to have a lot of power when I leave.\u201dHe then turned to reciting a litany of lies about Josh Turek, the Democrat running against Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson, casting him as a supporter of \u201ctaxpayer-funded transgender brutalization surgeries and in favor of men in girls bathrooms.\u201dDonald Trump arrives to speak at a midterm election campaign rally at Sioux Gateway Airport in Iowa on 22 October. Photograph: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty ImagesUwa Ede-OsifoLebron James mimed a golf swing and took an imaginary jump shot, as the national anthem was performed during Tuesday\u2019s Philadelphia 76ers and New York Knicks match-up. His gestures provoked the ire of Donald Trump, who berated him as \u201cno good\u201d and a \u201cTOTAL DISGRACE\u201d on social media.\u201cLeBron James should apologize to all of those Great American Warriors and Heroes who died for the American Flag, and all that our Country stands for!\u201d Trump wrote in a Wednesday Truth Social post.The NBA star and Trump have been at odds for several years.In 2017, Trump rescinded a White House invitation to the Golden State Warriors, after Stephen Curry indicated he would not want to go. James famously called Trump a \u201cbum,\u201d saying his presidency took away from the customary honor.The feud appeared to rekindle this summer, when in July, Trump suggested James was a \u201cracist,\u201d without much further explanation, after being asked to compare his career to that of Michael Jordan\u2019s.\u201cI only like people that like me,\u201d Trump said.LeBron James of the Philadelphia 76ers looks on during the first quarter against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Xfinity Mobile Arena on 22 October. Photograph: Emilee Chinn/Getty ImagesAs Trump travels to Iowa, Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson denounced Ohio ad he supportsDonald Trump is expected to speak soon at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa in support of Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson, who broke with the president on Thursday by denouncing an attack ad he has supported in the Ohio governor race.As Trump defended the ad, from Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, in which the estranged mother of the Democratic candidate, Dr Amy Acton, calls her daughter \u201ca liar\u201d, Hinson joined the bipartisan backlash against the ad triggered by the fact that Acton was removed from her mother\u2019s custody at age 12, after her stepfather was charged with raping her.In an interview ahead of today\u2019s rally, Hinson was asked by Jonathan Karl of ABC News about the ad from Ramaswamy\u2019s campaign. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible,\u201d Hinson said. \u201cI think about it as a mom, and you think about kid surviving childhood sexual abuse and having to relive that trauma on TV again. I think it\u2019s absolutely terrible, and I think they should take the ad down.\u201dHinson also called the comment from vice-president JD Vance, that he was disgusted by Republican criticism of the ad, \u201cridiculous\u201d.\u201cAgain, I think it\u2019s wrong and should come down.\u201dHinson, who currently represents Iowa in the House, is campaigning to replace Republican senator Joni Ernst, who revealed in 2019 that she was a survivor of sexual assault who had been raped in college.Hinson spoke at the rally on Thursday about 90 minutes before Trump\u2019s schedule arrival time.Republican congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who is running for the US Senate, spoke well in advance of Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa on Thursday. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/APStudent IDs will not be accepted at New Hampshire polls, Supreme Court rulesUwa Ede-OsifoThe US supreme court ruled on Thursday that New Hampshire students cannot use their school-issued ID cards as proof of identity to vote, handing a victory to the state\u2019s Republicans.The high court cited a previous ruling, \u201clower federal courts should ordinarily not alter the election rules on the eve of an election,\u201d in its decision to keep intact an April state law that struck high school and college IDs from a list of acceptable voter documents. House Bill 323, signed by New Hampshire\u2019s Republican governor, Kelly Ayotte, requires government-issued IDs, such as a passport or driver license.The Coalition for Open Democracy, a New Hampshire-based nonprofit, had sued to block the legislation, arguing that it raised unconstitutional barriers for the state\u2019s young voting bloc.Republican legislators nationwide have embraced stricter voter ID laws, framing them as a safeguard against alleged voter fraud. Voting rights groups have argued that the narrow range of acceptable forms of identification disenfranchises millions of voters.According to the Brennan Center, \u201cmore than 49 million American adults don\u2019t possess an unexpired driver\u2019s license with their current name and address. 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